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"In 1953, Philip Morris commissioned the Roper organization to conduct a general survey of Americans' smoking habits. The only menthol cigarette on the survey and the only one of any importance in the early 1950s was Kool. The Roper survey showed that only 2% of White Americans preferred the Kool brand. By contrast, the survey reported that 5% of African Americans preferred Kools (Roper, 1953). This small difference in preference was successfully parlayed by Brown & Williamson executives, and later by the tobacco industry as a whole, into the 70% vs. 30% difference that we see today between Black and White menthol smokers, respectively."

I don't believe he was hacked. However, he crossed the line when he sarcastically said he wanted the guy and his family raped. That's when the recipient made a scene over it. If he'd been fired, I wouldn't have defended him, unlike the BS which happened to Derek and Conor Daly. It's not about politics, it's about an NBC employee threatening someone in public.

oh come on Grizz. Taken in context the comment wasn’t a threat.

It was in response to a comment about immigrants being rapists etc... and how ridiculous that was.

"Each day well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this one day for it, and it alone, is life"
~ Sanskrit poem attributed to Kalidasa, "Salutation to the Dawn"